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No. 387,578. Patented Aug. 7'. 1888.

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UNITED STATES PATENT EFICE.

H. LANGDON, OF ELIZABETH, ELLER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NEYV JERSEY, AND GEORGE C. BATCH- CORSET.

SPECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 387,578, dated August 7, 1888.

Application filed December 15, 1887. Serial No. 257,937. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, G. ALBERTUS GLosE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bridgeport, in the county of Fairfield and State of 5 Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Nursing-Corsets; and

I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to IO which it appertainsto make and use the same.

My invention has for its object to produce a nursing-corset which shall be simple and eco nomical in construction, comfortable to wear, convenient in use, and which will thoroughly :5 protect the dress and under clothing from moisture.

With these ends in View I have devised the simple and novel construction, of which the following description, in connection with the 20 accompanying drawings, is a specification, numbers being used to denote the several parts.

Figure 1is an elevation of a half-corset with my invention applied, the flap or cover being in the closed position; and Fig. 2 is an eleva- 2 5 tion, on an enlarged scale, of the front upper portion of a half-corset, the flap or cover being in the open position, as when nursing.

In Fig. 1 the half-corset is straight at the center, and in Fig. 2 the portion shown is opened out at the top in order to show the shape more nearly as in use.

In the drawings I have shown my invention as applied to a single style of corset only. It should be understood, however, that my in- 3 vention is equally well adapted to any of the various styles of corsets now upon the market.

In order that the invention may be clearly understood,I will describe the same in connection with the corset illustrated.

1 denotes the body-section; 2, the upper front extension of the body section; 3, the lower front extension of the body-section; 4,the hipseetion, and 5 the under arm section. The usual section seams are denoted by 6, the bone- 4 5 pockets by 7, the back or lacing stay by 8, and

the front stay or clasp by 9.

denotes an opening for the breast, cut out from the upper portion of the front of the corset in the present instance the front extension of the body-section--the edge of said opening being preferably secured by a binding, 11.

12 denotes the flap or cover for the breastopening,which in the present instance is practically a continuation of the under-arm section, and may-or may not be made integral therewith.

In order to insure that the under-clothing and the dress will not be injured in the slightest or made uncomfortable by becoming saturated with milk from the breast or the saliva of the child in nursing, I have provided a skirt, 14, which is preferably made from suitable water-proof material,consisting,ordinarily, of a light sheet of gum covered on both sides with stockinet. This skirt is secured to 6 the flap, preferably to the inner side, as shown, its upper edge being curved inward to correspond with the curvature of the breastopening, so that the material of the skirt cannot come in contact with the breast. The special function of this skirt is to cover the portion of the corset under the breast-opening, which almost invariably becomes saturated, especially when a child is nursing. It will be seen that the use of this flap affords an efficient protection for the under-clothing and the dress.

It will of course be understood that the details of construction are subject to wide variations without departing from the spirit of my invention.

I claim A corset having an opening or cut-away portion for the breast, a flap adapted to cover said opening, and a water-proof skirt secured to the lower portion of the flap, the upper edge 85 of said skirt being curved to correspond with the curvature of the breast-opening, so that the material of the skirt cannot come in contact with the breast, but the portion of the corset under thebreast-opening is covered and 0 the clothing thereby protected from moisture.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

G. ALBER'IUS CLOSE.

Witnesses:

A. M. WOOSTER, B. E. LEE. 

